Caroline Golum

Caroline Golum is a filmmaker, programmer, and writer living in Brooklyn. When she is not working for the Man, she is usually making, watching, or writing about a movie. Her first film, “A Feast of Man,” is just a click away on Vimeo and Amazon. You can follow her on Twitter @carolineavenue.

Bandamlak Yimenu

Bandamlak Yimenu is a film critic from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He has written many pieces for Gobena Street and Addis Zeybe. He has written extensively about Professor Haile Gerima's work on Gobena Street and I have just recently written a forthcoming essay on Haile Gerima's Harvest 3000 Years.

Carlos Valladares

Carlos Valladares is a freelance writer and critic from South Central Los Angeles, California. He studied cinema at Stanford University and began his PhD in art history and film at Yale University in fall 2019. He helps curate film series on Yale's on-campus cinema, Films at the Whitney. He is the film columnist for Gagosian Quarterly, where he has written on the work of Kelly Reichardt, Kevin Jerome Everson, Jacques Demy, Bill Gunn, Richard Serra, Jerry Schatzberg, and Pasolini. He has also appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, n+1, the Criterion Collection, Frieze, and Film Comment. He lives in New York City.

Simran Hans

Simran is a freelance culture writer and broadcaster. She has been a film critic for The Observer since 2017. Her work has appeared in publications including Dazed, The Guardian, New Statesman, Sight & Sound and VICE among others. She is also a member of the London Critics Circle.

Monica Castillo

Monica Castillo is the arts and culture reporter for Colorado Public Radio. As a film critic and writer her work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, RogerEbert.com, Remezcla, The Wrap, Hyperallergic and elsewhere. Outside of covering film and television, Monica volunteers her time as a regional director for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

Devika Girish

Devika Girish is the Co-Deputy Editor of Film Comment and a Talks programmer for the New York Film Festival. Her writing also appears in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the Criterion Collection, and other publications, and she has served on the selection committees of the Mumbai Film Festival and the Berlin Critics' Week.

Blake Williams

Blake is a filmmaker, critic, and writer based in Toronto. His experimental video work has screened at venues such as the Berlinale, Locarno Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and New York Film Festival. He is a regular contributor to Cinema Scope and Filmmaker Magazine, and is a doctoral candidate at the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, where he is completing his thesis on stereoscopic aesthetics in recent experimental cinema.

Mackenzie Lukenbill

Mackenzie Lukenbill is an audiovisual archivist and non-fiction editor from Rochester, NY. They were previously the data and post-production manager at Field of Vision, and have contributed writing to frieze, BOMB Magazine, and Film Comment.

Toby Leonard

Toby Leonard has served as the Programming Director of Nashville's Belcourt Theatre since 2004. In 1999, he was part of a small group that formed to save the Belcourt, the city’s last historic neighborhood theater, from the wrecking ball. In addition to his work at the Belcourt, he provides consultations for theatrical distribution as well as a consultant for a handful of film festivals and regional cinemas.

Rōgan Graham

Rōgan Graham is a freelance film journalist and programmer from South London who believes in pursuing avenues vital to broadening the scope of industry and audiences alike. She regularly writes for Little White Lies and has also contributed to i-D magazine and Total Film. Having interviewed several prominent Black British film directors, and facilitated the Small Axe Forums, her passion and focus is on Black British cinema.

Annie Berman

ANNIE BERMAN (Producer, Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Narrator, Co-Editor) is a media artist living and working in New York City. Named one of Independent Magazine’s 10 Filmmakers to Watch, her films, videos, performances, and installations have shown internationally, from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to the Rome Independent Film Festival, where she was awarded the Best Experimental Film Prize. THE FAITHFUL is her first feature film. Annie teaches film writing at City College, and holds an MFA from Hunter College.

Sheila O’Malley

Sheila O’Malley is a regular film critic for Rogerebert.com. Her work has appeared in Film Comment, The NY Times, The LA Times, Criterion, Sight & Sound, and other outlets. Her blog is The Sheila Variations.

Yoshi James

Yalonda "Yoshi" M. James is an award-winning staff photojournalist and video producer at The San Francisco Chronicle in San Francisco, CA. Her passion is documenting stories focusing on social justice and human rights issues. James is formerly a staff photojournalist and video producer for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, TN. Before joining the CA, James worked for The Charlotte Observer covering stories ranging from presidential campaign trails to homelessness in the Charlotte region.

Martha Kunda

Self-taught cinema culturalist working in curation, programming, dance and Pan-African film canon. Passionate about Black cinema made in the UK specifically working class focused stories, work by Black women and by LGBTQIA+ communities. Martha can be found in London, dancing or experimenting with recipes and new braid patterns.

Kolby Webster

Deni Cheng

Deni Cheng is a filmmaker from New York City. Her debut short film titled BUCKO! premiered at Nitehawk Theater presented by NoBudge. Her short film Paradise won Best Narrative Short at Indie Memphis Film Festival 2020. Her music videos have been covered by publications such as Rolling Stone and Billboard. Along with her music videos and narrative films, her fashion production and casting work has been featured in i-D Magazine, Dazed, V Magazine and more. She is the Flies Collective 2021 grantee and is currently in pre-production for her next short film, Sucker, about two brothers from Flushing, Queens.

Aaron Hunt

Gabrielle Brooks

Eso Tolson

Lexi Perkins